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...taking its toll on the Viet Cong. It has, after all, jeen only a year since General Westmoreland got sufficient manpower to begin to apply genuine pressure. With average losses as high as 15,000 a month this year, the Communists may be starting to feel a manpower pinch of their own. Recruitment for the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam is down to between 3,000 and 5,500 a month. Infiltration from North Viet Nam has been held steady at 6,000 to 7,000 a month, and the Communists may at last have reached the "crossover point...
...gravel driveway at 3 a.m. without waking someone important. The only way to get two cocktails at East Bourne Lodge is to be first in line: Happy Hour lasts only half an hour, and even the ice is rationed. Not that Intrepid's owners are trying to pinch pennies: last week in their haste to get her mast repaired and a new rudder installed, they were paying Newport shipwrights $12.25 an hour to work straight through the night...
Close to Hysteria. Interest rates have climbed this year partly because of stepped-up borrowing by local governments, and partly because of the vast appetite of corporations to replenish their coffers after last year's tight-money pinch. New private and public bond issues rose to a record $10.4 billion during the first half of 1967 as against $8.4 billion in the first months of the year before, in what Partner Sidney Homer of the Manhattan bond house of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler calls "an exceptional, almost hysterical stampede to the money market...
...Although Middle East oil production is near its prewar level, the refineries of Western Europe will continue to feel the pinch for some time to come. Reason: until the Suez Canal is un plugged, oil tankers must take a two-week detour around the Cape of Good Hope. At Rotterdam's Europoort, whose massive refineries get 70% of their oil from the Middle East, companies have dipped into reserves while eagerly awaiting the homeward-bound tankers. "They're out there floating around somewhere," says Theo P. van den Bergh, general manager of Shell Netherlands Refining...
...First up, he hit a sinking liner to right that skipped past California outfielders Bubba Morton for three bases. Ace reliever Minnie Rojas, who had given up his third and fourth home runs of the season the night before to the Sox, struck out catcher Russ Gibson and got pinch hitter Jerry Adair to hit a grounder to third. Watching the potential winning run instead of the ball, infielder Paul Schaal let it go through his legs to end the game...